Posted
by
pudge
on Wednesday September 03, 2003 @02:57PM
from the i-got-dibs-when-they-are-done-with-it dept.

CousinVinnie writes "Previously noted in this Slashdot story, the administration of Virginia Tech has announced they're puchasing 1100 G5's (another story) in hopes to build a top-10 supercomputer by October 1. Tech will be spending $5.2 million over five years on the project, which should help it pull in more research money." Maybe VT can use the new computers to beef up their web site.

Slashdot summary:1) Itaniums are for pussies.2) Go Apple!3) Opterons still kick the G5's butt.4) I can't wait to run doom3 on my backordered G5.5) People griping about apples proprietary hardware and software, and how this cluster could have been built cheaper from oem parts, and ebay ethernet hubs.6)Dumb lists summarizing other trolls.

One night, I was processing these gene sequences on my Itanium cluster, you know? When all of a sudden it went berserk, the screens started flashing, and, like, the whole result set just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good result set! I had to cram and resequence it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed thesis wasn't nearly as good, and I blame those Itaniums for the funding didn't get, and tenure I lost.

I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple G5 cluster. It's a lot nicer to work on than my old Itanium farm was, it hasn't let me down once, and my papers have all been really good.

Come on/. Would you please grab a damn G5 thingie offa something somewheres and quit using G4 thumbnails in Apple stories? It sticks out like a green sore thumb and it's embarrassing for/. Time to roll with the changes.